Bored one night, I thought I’d have some fun on Zazzle and become a shoe designer for a moment. Seeing that there just aren’t as many cute boys shoes out there I thought I’d do some mid-mod keds for the summer! Here’s what I came up with in a few hours.

Saw this and just had to share! I’d LOVE for Baby Charlie to smell like Basil + Mint, then I might just have to eat him up even more than I already do!

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This woman is TALENTED, check out her Yoplait, I’d buy those in a heartbeat and save them forever!

Edible Charlie, I can smell the eenie meenie already – now I just need to buy it!

I don’t know if you’ve seen the Victoria’s Secret Pink Organic line but I just love the handwritting on the packaging. It reminds me of a little something I’ve done myself ;)

Cost for this Mother’s Day package? $5/Smile Card since Mom’s can always cheer us up, and Victoria’s Secret is offering a special right now of 2/$20 on these lovelies!

Photo found first at thedieline.com ::: the world’s #1 package design resource.

The snow is slowly melting off and here’s a view from the back door. Taken this week, hopefully it’s a sign of spring to come! See those willows poking out right in the center of the photo? Usually they are covered this time of year. Happy Friday!

Taken with a Canon Digital Rebel Xsi, 50mm 1.4 fixed lens. I’m far from knowing what I’m doing here with my camera, just having fun with the lens and some mad photoshop skillz.

As I was browsing the Sur la Table website today I happened upon these chocolate bars by Charles Chocolates. I might be totally behind the times with this one, but isn’t the packaging just so quaint and playful? Upon looking into the company a little more, I was excited to find that they offer wedding favor options for brides which you can see below and click here for more information. I think I’d go for the hazelnut, you?

Okay, for those of you that requested this here’s the written out directions. I’d put the difficulty level at about easy/medium due to the fact that a knowledge of layers in photoshop will be helpful. If anyone is interested in photoshop tutorials please let me know, I’d be happy to help if I can!

Creating an animated GIF in Photoshop (beginner, should have experience using layers):

1> create a new image preferably under 350×350 pixels for web streaming.

2> place/paste each image into it’s own layer (layers palette) and label/organize them in the order of appearance. (if you can’t find your layers palette then click on “window” in your menu bar and scroll down until you find layers > click and it will open with the rest of your palettes).

3> In the “window” menu, select Animation Palette, it should open below or somewhere on your screen.

4> In your Animation Palette options, click “Make Frames From Layers.” Your layers should then appear in the animation palette.

5> Rearrange if necessary from left-right the order of appearance. By clicking on the time below (0.0 sec) you can change the time allotted to each “frame”

6> You can press play to review your animation.

Once you are ready to save, follow closely:

A> Click File menu > Export > Render Video

B> Name the file and select a folder/location to save it.

C> Under File Options select “QuickTime Export”. Click on settings for QuickTime Export and select settings again. Click “animation” and then click okay.

D> Under Range select All Frames, leave everything else the same.

E> Click Render.

You can now open your movie from where you saved it and it’ll play! Yea!

NOTE: If you’d like to keep it as a .gif file instead of turning it into a .mov file you can just rename the file after it’s exported and use a .gif extension instead of .mov extension. This will not change the file in any way except by appending the file extension.

These were ordered in the midst of morning sickness, so I can now look at the skull and fondly think of poison at any given moment. Thankfully this client was very understanding of the situation at hand and agreed to wait until I was back on my feet to get these in hand (in return she got a bonus in numbers :) Enjoy!

Welcome to the year-long project of redesigning the website. I usually overextend (and overwhelm) myself with projects that I think I can do in ridiculously short amounts of time. The website being one of them. In it’s first launch I tried to learn Flash (lifelong learner here). That generation of learning and website never got finished, never made it on Google (thank Flash programming), and was just really pathetic in the end.

Come last fall, I decided to redesign in Dreamweaver – which I’ve never touched before. And yes, I decided not to hire a programmer again, instead opting for the continued education. I know there are a plethora of designers out there that are shuddering at the thought, and even more programmers that are thinking, “This person is of the Devil. Those designers think they know it all!” I confess to you now, I don’t really know anything except that I like to try new things. My credits go to the solicitation of friends advice and colleagues suggestions & critiques. Not to be forgotten, a lot of Lynda tutorials, emailmeform.com and a working brain. I have come to wrap things up and it not only feels like giving birth to my third child but that if forced, my brain might be able to learn Tagalic, Romanian, or maybe even Japanese at some given point (after using Dreamweaver). HTML and I are not best friends yet but there is no longer a severe need for a translator.

With that said, although not all the stationery lines are active (namely Holiday, and Dovetail), they will be soon. So keep checking back. However, the GALLERY is getting added to at a fast pace. Now you can see the work of Dingbat Press in almost Hi-Definition.